You know you are in for a fun shoot when in the lead up to it, you ask the model how to pronounce his name. I’d only seen Jorge written and I don’t like to offend anyone. When I asked, he replied “almost like you’re saying hello to a prostitute, “whore hey”. I laughed a lot when I got that message.

Sadly this time around I didn’t get a chance to organise anyone to film the shoot so we had to make do with me doing before and during bits on my phone and filming other bits and pieces with my camera between shots. To be honest it is one of my favourite behind the scenes videos. Jorge was so much fun to collaborate with. He’s only done a handful of photo shoots and the photographer that introduced us said to be careful about asking to do nudes too soon just in case it scared him off. Well there really was no problem. When you watch the video below, you’ll see that he’s really quite comfortable in front of the camera. If I had worked as hard as he has and looked the way he does, I would be very comfortable nude in front of a camera too.

In the video you hear me say that he can’t go too far out in the water because he can’t swim. That wasn’t a joke. He really can’t. As an Aussie that is such a rare thing to hear but the world is a big and diverse place isn’t it? That’s what makes it so special.

Frater Gymnos

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